# Beach volleyball at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Beach volleyball is among the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Birmingham, England. This will be the second staging of beach volleyball at the Commonwealth Games since its debut four years prior, and therefore the first staging within England specifically.
Both tournaments are scheduled to take place between 30 July and 7 August 2022.

## Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows:
| G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
| DateEvent | Sat 30 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 | Sun 31 | Mon 1 | Mon 1 | Tue 2 | Tue 2 | Wed 3 | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 | Sun 7 |
| Session → | A | E | A | E | A | E | A | E | A | E | A | E | M | A | E | A | E | A | A | E | E |
| Men | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | | B | F | | |
| Women | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | G | | ¼ | ¼ | | ½ | | | B | F |
Full match schedules were released on 1 July 2022.

## Venue

The competitions will be held in a temporary Games-time venue at the brownfield site in Smithfield, named after the market that once stood in its place.
The venue will also play host to 3x3 basketball, 3x3 wheelchair basketball, and the start of the marathon; after the Games, it will be dismantled and the site subject to a redevelopment scheme.

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (England)
| Rank | CGA | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | England* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | Vanuatu | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

### Medallists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Australia Paul Burnett Chris McHugh | Canada Daniel Dearing Sam Schachter | England Javier Bello Joaquin Bello |
| Women details | Canada Melissa Humana-Paredes Sarah Pavan | Australia Mariafe Artacho del Solar Taliqua Clancy | Vanuatu Miller Pata Sherysyn Toko |

## Qualification

Twelve nations qualify for each tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games:
* The host nation.
* The top five Commonwealth nations in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings between 16 April 2018 and 31 March 2022, excluding the host nation.
* The highest-placed nation not yet qualified from each of the five regional qualifiers (four of six FIVB regions, plus the Oceania CGF region).
* One nation not already qualified receives a CGF/FIVB Bipartite Invitation.

### Summary

| CGA | Men | Women | Athletes |
| Australia | | | 4 |
| Canada | | | 4 |
| Cyprus | | | 4 |
| England | | | 4 |
| Ghana | | | 2 |
| Kenya | | | 2 |
| Maldives | | | 2 |
| New Zealand | | | 4 |
| Rwanda | | | 2 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | | | 2 |
| Scotland | | | 2 |
| Solomon Islands | | | 2 |
| South Africa | | | 2 |
| Sri Lanka | | | 4 |
| The Gambia | | | 2 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | | | 2 |
| Tuvalu | | | 2 |
| Vanuatu | | | 2 |
| TOTAL: 18 CGAs | 12 | 12 | 48 |

### Men

| Means of qualification | Date | Location | Quotas | Qualified |
| Host Nation | — | — | 1 | England |
| FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings | 16 April 2018 – 31 March 2022 | — | 5 | Canada Australia New Zealand The Gambia Rwanda |
| Oceania Ranking | 16 April 2018 – 31 March 2022 | — | 1 | Tuvalu |
| Americas / Caribbean Ranking | 16 April 2018 – 31 March 2022 | — | 1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| European Qualifier | 24–26 September 2021 | Edinburgh | 1 | Cyprus |
| Asian Qualifier | 18–19 March 2022 | Negombo | 1 | Sri Lanka |
| African Qualifier | 25–28 March 2022 | Accra | 1 | South Africa |
| Bipartite Invitation | 21 April 2022 | — | 1 | Maldives |
| TOTAL | | | 12 | |

### Women

| Means of qualification | Date | Location | Quotas | Qualified |
| Host Nation | — | — | 1 | England |
| FIVB Beach Volleyball World Rankings | 16 April 2018 – 31 March 2022 | — | 5 | Canada Australia Vanuatu New Zealand Cyprus |
| Oceania Ranking | 16 April 2018 – 31 March 2022 | — | 1 | Solomon Islands |
| Americas / Caribbean Ranking | 16 April 2018 – 31 March 2022 | — | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago |
| European Qualifier | 24–26 September 2021 | Edinburgh | 1 | Scotland |
| Asian Qualifier | 18–19 March 2022 | Negombo | 1 | Sri Lanka |
| African Qualifier | 25–28 March 2022 | Accra | 1 | Ghana |
| Bipartite Invitation | 21 April 2022 | — | 1 | Kenya |
| TOTAL | | | 12 | |
;Scheduling issues
* 1 2 The men's continental qualifiers for the Americas / Caribbean and Oceania were abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the associated quota places were awarded to the highest-ranked nations from those regions.
* 1 2 The women's continental qualifiers for the Americas / Caribbean and Oceania were abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the associated quota places were awarded to the highest-ranked nations from those regions.